Buglers and cadets shine at high school prize drill
Ralph MacBrayne and Grover Fels lead a tough medal drill as 35 cadets compete for pennants in a sunlit field day at the high school regimental event. The 19th annual drill draws two thousand spectators, with bands, banners, and lemonade served after a lengthy program of company and battalion movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph MacBrayne
Grover Fels
Perry Hands
James Riley
Adj. MacBrayne
Tne
A. G. Thompson
James BE. Donnelly
D. J. Murphy
George ©. Worthen
Philip Mc
Strenuous Life of Native Porto Ricans at Cayey
In Cayey Puerto Rico May 8 a U S infantry battalion and a native mounted infantry unit of the First Porto Rican regiment train with vigor under Major Swift. Recruits endure daily drills in English commands and enforce strict cleanliness at camp, kitchens, and mess, while officers monitor nutrition and discipline.
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Cayey
P. R
U.S. Infantry
United States Army
Swift
Tropics
United States
New York
Broadway
Guyama
Arroyo
Patillas
N. Y
Mailsof
Seatoens
Guerrilla stage of Luzon war challenges Manila
The Chicago Record notes Luzon combat has entered a guerrilla phase. In forty days American forces in pacified districts lost more men arms and supplies than any prior period of the rebellion, requiring a firm hand and a wise brain in Manila to manage this shift familiar to Spaniards in recent decades.
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Luzon
Manila
Chicago
Record
Political clash over silver stance cited
The Springfield Union contrasts Secretary Long on finance with Senator Wolcott who, though loyal to the Republican party, is described as weak on silver.
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Long
Wolcott
Springfield
Union
Pills Claim Liver Ailments Relief
An advertisement touts 4 OOD'S PILLS as a cure for liver ills bile digestion indigestion and headaches. The copy uses outlandish claims and breaks in typography.
End of the dime novel era and its rise in American literature
Firmin Dredd surveys the dime novel’s birth in 1860 at Beadle & Adams with Etiquette guides and frontier romances. He notes high sales, rapid writing, and a shift to gaudy covers, leading to sensationalism by the 1870s and a decline in literary quality as the form evolved.
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Firmin Dredd
Bookman
Beadle & Adams
Orville J. Victor
Anne&. Stephens
Malaeska
Harry Cavendish
Myra
Mrs. Stephens
Alice Wilde
Dime
Edward S. Ellis
The
Dime Library
Seth Jones
M. V. Victor
Ezekiel
United Stattes
England
Maum Guinea
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Munro
Aggressive Lady Sparks Streetcar Encounter
A reader recounts a summer ride on an open streetcar where an unfriendly woman seated beside him provoked a tense exchange. He recalls her contemptuous gaze and a confrontation sparked by his onions and a pretended drink from a bottle. She threatens poison, he retorts with a sharp reply, and he leaves the car.
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Iedalls
T. W. Simpson
Fairgrounds
Percy J. Wilson
Tennyson J. W. Simpson
Lester Russell
Winfred Co. MacBrayne
Osborn H. Cilley
Jackson Palmer
Oliver Stevens
Arthur H. Cashim
Burton Stockham
Horace Coburn
Ralph Mac Hrayne
Burnett Sweatt
William Jackson
Edward Abbott
John Perry
William H. Spaulding
Fisher Nesmith
Herman E. Thompson
Harry McCue
Luther Gilmore
John Sullivan
Lester G. Richardson
Arthur French
Edward Cahill
Roy F. Lovejoy
Arthur Wells
Percy Perkins
Herford Fllliott
Charles Cooke
Herbert Goddard
Harry Fifield
Fair Ground
Maj
Uneeda Biscuit
Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer National Biscuit Company
Harvard
Harvard Brew. CO
Lowell, Mass
U.S. A
E. D. Steele & CO
Cor. Central and
Prescott Sts., Lowell
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